The Daily News. TUESDAY, MAY 1. LLOYD GEORGE'S ASSURANCES.
SEDITION CHARGES.
By Telegraph.—'Press Association. Auckland, April 30.
Harry Ritchie TJrquhart, a Quaker, charged with causing a publication of seditious pamphlets -entitled "Men and Marbles," was sentenced to eleven months' imprisonment without hard labor.
The Magistrate said it was a case for internment, not punishment. Edwin Sayes, printer, who admitted publishing the pamphlets, was fined £25. Dunedin, April 30.
When William Alfred Coleman, a miner fiom Runanga, was brought up for sentence for inciting a seditious strike at Fairfield, Mr. M'Gregor, tho Crown solicitor, asked that sentence be adjourned, he having been so instructed by the Government in pursuance of the terms of settlement of the strike made with the miners. The Government disclaimed any interference with magisterial functions. The sentence was adjourned for four weeks and accused was re-leased on ais own recognisance'.
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 May 1917, Page 4
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